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With that out of the way onto the story.
Prologue: The tale of the Stray Alastor
"Ack!" A silver haired teen screamed as another part of his body was slashed open. His dark bloodshot gold eyes looked shakily at the side of the chair. Crimson red. The color of the blood which covered the torture chair and the muddy ground below him. Echos of wet footsteps slowly walked from behind him and a women's cute sadistic laughter reflected off the walls of the torture room.
"Fufufu…"
The woman placed her finger to her lip seductively as she looked at a small bucket and back to her victim. "I'm going to fill this bucket to the rim." The woman giggled placing the bucket to the side of her restrained victim. This psychotic mistress was the high-class devil Amelia Zagan.
From the back side of her belt, she unsheathed a short glowing weapon. She waved the weapon across the teen's eyes causing his body to shiver all over. "Please, no more…" He muttered helplessly to his master. Playfully, she took a small hop back landing in a dirty puddle. The high class devil wiggled her toes in the water giggling to herself again as she brought the knife close to her chin and placed her index finger on the tip of the blade. The light radiating from the knife emphasized the crazy features of his master. She tilted her head to the side and stared cheerfully at her servant.
"Hmmm, nope!" Without any hesitation she slashed across the teen's chest.
"AGGGGHHH!" He howled in agony. His blood splattered from the wound on his chest, before settling down and dripping to the ground, creating a small pool of blood under his chair.
His master clapped her hands together. "Wow! Ichiro, even after a wound like that you're still breathing!"
She was covered in his blood from head to toe, but her twisted mind wasn't bothered by it at the least. In fact she looked as satisfied as anyone could be. She placed her knife back into its holster and brought up the bucket, looking down to check how much essence of his blood she collected. "Damn! It's not full yet!"
Ichiro's breaths started to become slower and weaker. His skin color was starting to become paler and colder from the lack of blood. With his remaining strength, he lifted his head so he could see behind the psychopath for a master. Slowly his head dropped to his shoulder and his eyes looked over to the wall. With his blurry vision, he focused to find his teammates, the other remaining members of the Zagan household. Thirteen girls, all chained up to the walls stripped of their belongings and clothing, stared in horror as their heads were fixated by their master's magic to watch the horror show in front of them.
The silver haired boy felt his soul yell to him to do something to stop this, but as seconds past, his body ached… No, longed to be put to rest. This torture was far worse than any living thing could or should endure. His dark gold eyes started to lose their spark, and the sound of his heartbeat that once thundered in his ear weakened and slowly became a quiet thump. Ichiro forced his eyes to stay open knowing once they closed, it would be over, but somehow his body became more and more obsessed with the thought of dying. Eventually, the battle for the fate of his life came to an end. His body had won. Reluctantly his eyelids started to close as his last breaths were just about to leave his body.
"AAACCCKKK!" A burning feeling of a knife punctured his body and instantly jet out. Ichiro's whole body jumped back to life for a moment before falling back limp into the chair.
"Fufufu, such a handsome boy." His master giggled as she grabbed his head to face her, "You won't die yet Ichiro. I still have big plans for you!"
He could not see what the madwoman was doing as his vision faded, but a muffled sound of a glass cap splashing on the ground chimed through Ichiro's ears. Cold water entered his mouth. Without any notice, he felt all the injury he endured disappear without a trace leaving Ichiro to make sense of what happened. Slowly his body regained its strength and his mind sluggishly recovered its stability. "W-what happened right now?"
As his vision returned, his confusion turned to horror as his crazy master was looking at him straight in the eyes and smiling at him as if she was insulting him. And suddenly all the injuries and marks on the boy's body disappeared, his crimson blood still remained but all cuts and bruises disappeared from sight as if they didn't. "What am I doing here! I-I was so close to escape this hell, but… Why am I still here?!" He yelled as he struggled against the bonds that held him down.
In his master's hands was a crystal clear bottle with all the content inside of the bottle was gone. She laughed arrogantly at him. "Phenex tears Ichiro!" she giggled. "With one bottle full of it, suddenly all the injuries and marks went poof! I'm glad it didn't get rid of all your beautiful blood!" She sighed as she finished her little rant.
She began to circle around her servant like a predator watching its prey. She traced her fingers along his arm and finally gently held onto the tips of his fingers, holding one finger at a time. "Fufufu, you fingers even came back!" She walked in front of him and leaned forward. They were face to face now and all her features were more noticeable, despite the fact that she was covered in blood and had a mad smile on her face; she still was as beautiful as the day when Ichiro first met her. Her long platinum blonde hair was still long and reached her back, it glistened softly to the light in the room, and her deceptive mint green eyes hidden behind a pair of thin-rimmed glasses gave her the appearance of youth and vigor.
She cupped his cheeks in the palms of her hands. "You're a fine one did you know that Ichiro? It's been two hours and you're still sane" she purred.
Ichiro's breathing intensified in response to his heart racing from the fear he felt towards his master. Her lips curved into a cocky grin. She backed away and put her hands behind her back tracing along her utility belt of torture devices. The woman picked up a pair of long sharpened scissors this time. With that infamous crazy look in her eye she sliced and sliced Ichiro's chest open again. "HAHAHAHA! MORE! GIVE ME MORE!" She yelled like a maniac, "MORE BLOOD! FEEL MORE PAIN! SHOW ME THE ANIMAL INSIDE!"
*SLICE**SLICE* *SLICE* *SLICE* *SLICE*
Ichiro collapsed forward. Everything hurt. He just wanted to cry, but it hurt to cry...his eyes had been cut…she had cut horizontally across his eyes. The girls dangled against the wall helplessly unable to do a thing. They were paralyzed by magic and their hands were restrained to the walls. They could not scream from the gags their maniac of a master forced on them.
The master stared cockily at her only male servant. "Ichiro, do you know why I chose you to become part of my peerage?" She said walking near the walls of the room with the scissors still in her hands and beginning to walk by each of her restrained servants, dragging her bloodied scissors across the wall, looking over any obstacle in its way.
"Because Ichiro-chan, you are unnaturally strong. And I need someone like you to help me rid this world of the four Great Satans and take the Underworld for myself!" The woman hissed angrily at him before she started to giggle again. "During the time of the Great War, I was a interrogator under a very powerful ultimate class devil named Rizevim Lucifer." She said as she giggled some more. "He was a man who kept growing more wrathful towards the New Devil Society. He believed this new way of life was a disgrace! He was disgusted by the evil pieces, the thought of other creatures becoming devils sickened him. So he and my family abandoned our people and hid away in Luucifad which had become extra demon territory".
"Fufufu, what fools they were. They chose loyalty to Lucifer, over power and wealth." the woman laughed, looking at the blade of her weapon. "One day I made a decision to leave that idiotic family and return to the New Satan Society. I created a new name for myself and I worked to achieve the rank of a High Class Devil, so I could unlock the ability to have my own servants by using the devil recruiting tools. And when I turned eighteen, the current Beelzebub, Ajuka, gave me the evil pieces, but I knew this was due to pity not because he actually cared or valued my strength as a high-class devil " Amelia explained.
"Over the past few years, ever since that day I took you from that damn orphanage I found you rotting in, I've been… 'Experimenting'… with your blood, I needed you to become stronger. Strong enough to rid the problems the four Great Satans have caused me…but you tried to mess with my plan. I would've let you rule the underworld and in the future, heaven, with me. I would've let everyone in this room share in the glory of ruling over the three factions. But you. You nearly ruined my plan." She growled at Ichiro. "You nearly got everyone of my servants to abandon me."
"YOU WERE GOING TO GET US ALL KILLED!" The boy screamed as his eyes somehow began to water. "You were planning on using us as tools! You never once considered the pain you put us through! YOU WERE HURTING US!"
"Hurting you?" She turned to the thirteen girls behind her and tilted her head to the side, "Is that true? Was I hurting you all?" She questioned, but no one answered. They were too horrified by her to answer plus the gags in their mouth wasn't doing any favors. She shook her head from left to right and let out a small sigh. She looked over the crowd and gracefully walked like royalty towards one of her smaller servants, a beautiful small petite girl with shoulder length black hair and brown eyes, a girl by the name of Moki.
"No…No…NO…PLEASE DON'T!" Ichiro's cries of pain fell on deaf ears as the woman picked up the girl by the neck. "Amelia…Amelia ZAGAN…PLEASE DON'T" He yelled as he tried to shake free from his chair.
Moki was in her hands crying, shaking, and trying to plead with her mouth gagged. Amelia ignored her attempts to cry in agony. "You know Moki… I was always afraid that you were more beautiful and youthful than me. And that you would try to take my Ichiro-Chan from me. But now I'm going to make it so you never have that chance."
Amelia brought her weapon up high and slammed the scissors straight through the girl's eye making her scream through the gag as red liquid splashed out of her eye. "No!" the boy screamed, but his master ignored his cries and pulled the scissors out of Moki's eye. Amelia stared at Moki's one good eye and smiled as she looked back at the scissors with Moki's eyeball stuck to the tip of blade. Amelia's smile grew more psychotic as intense feelings of sadistic amusement swelled up in her chest. Out of the heat of the moment, she bit the whole eyeball off the blade and swallowed it whole.
Amelia smiled again as she pushed a crying and screaming Moki to the wall, the gag falling from her mouth. "STOP! PLEASE AMELIA-SAMA! I LOVED YOU! I RESPECTED YOU! I DIDN'T HATE YOU! I WANTED TO BE AS BEAUTIFUL AND SMART AS YOU!" She begged in a futile attempt to save herself.
Amelia ignored the girl's screams and pleads "That doesn't matter now, little girl." She glared at her. Once again she rose her weapon in the air and started ramming the scissors deep into her skull. Moki's blood spurting out of her body finally making the other girls to scream through their gags. Ichiro continued to kick, cry and scream for any kind of mercy, even begging Amelia to take him instead of her.
Moki flailed around as the blades went deeper into her skull until her body suddenly froze lifelessly… she was now dead. Amelia smiled at the other girls "Now which one of you pretty ladies is next?" She smiled showing off her knife this time.
"What's wrong? Why do you cry?" Ichiro's eyes shot open. He looked around and was no longer in the basement being tortured by his master. Instead, he was in a large lush field, surrounded by flowers.
"I'm…going to die." Ichiro admitted with fresh tears running down his eyes.
"Even after everything you've been through and everything you've done…you're still afraid of dying? How amusing..." the girl purred quietly, but her every word she said felt like a nail being driven into Ichiro's heart. Ichiro looked up at the girl in shock. She was a girl with bored yet a sad looking expression on her face. She had dark purple eyes and shoulder length, light purple hair.
The girl walked over to Ichiro, who was still strapped into the chair he was in, she calmly took her finger and wiped some blood off of Ichiro's face before putting the finger in her mouth and savoring the blood for a moment. The strange girl giggled, but her giggled was off putting, as if no emotions were behind it.
"…Who, who are you?" Ichiro said in shock.
The girl didn't answer. She turned around and stared into the far horizon "Your master is here."
In mere seconds, the valley of flowers disappeared, and Ichiro was back in that room again, only this time-
"OH-oh my god! What the fuck! What the fuck! WHAT THE FUCK!" The pain from mentioning 'GOD' didn't even register inside of Ichiro's head as he continued to scream out loud.
Corpses… That was all that laid around him.
The main one that stuck out was the corpse where the body had been sliced in half. The internal organs were completely visible and spilling out as droplets of blood poured from the hand. The floor wasn't even recognizable, fully covered in the crimson red blood of Ichiro's household "Maria…" He muttered looking at one of the bodies.
Her corpse was mangled and bit in some places. There was another corpse nearby and it was nearly impossible to tell if it was even human anymore, the lower half was missing and flesh was skinned off showing both bones and flesh, Ichiro stared at the body intensely, and despite the missing flesh he could tell who it was.
"Addison!" Ichiro stumbled towards her body.
She was a beautiful girl with long black hair and glistening golden eyes before getting mutilated. Ichiro remembered that she was the one who taught him to defend himself, and was always the one who cleaned and healed his body whenever he got a beating from his master.
All the bodies laid motionless. All the members of his former peerage, some were torn and twisted in ways not even humanly possible, others suffered from missing limbs, and the room was painted in blood.
"Why? WHY!?" Ichiro's eyes widened as he looked at each of the corpses in front of him. Wait…there was one missing.
"Freya!?" Ichiro screamed her name as if his life depended on it. "If she's alive… maybe… maybe master didn't…"
"Oh, you finally woke back up Ichiro-chan!" Ichiro looked straight ahead and his eyes widened. In the hands of Amelia Zagan, the only remaining member of the Zagan family was an unconscious girl with snow white hair and crystal blue eyes. The girl in her hands looked like a sleeping angel; she had beautiful fair skin and a perfect feminine body despite her short appearance.
"Amelia, please don't hurt her! Please stop doing this!" Ichiro pleaded. More tears fell from his eyes.
Amelia turned to the unconscious girl in her hands then back to Ichiro "So this is the one?" Amelia lifted the girl to a chair before strapping her in and then having her face Ichiro.
The girl's eyes began to open, her crystal blue orbs stared directly at Ichiro "I-Ichiro-Chan?"
*SMACK*
"Freya!" Ichiro cried in pain.
"I told you never to call him that you little whore!" Amelia grabbed Freya's neck tightening her grip around it causing her to choke.
"Stop it!" Ichiro cried. "PLEASE AMELIA, STOP IT! JUST STOP!"
Amelia turned to Ichiro, an almost innocent looking smile on her otherwise maniacal looking face. "If Ichiro-Chan wants me too." Amelia let go of Freya's neck letting her gasp for air and stutter for a few seconds.
"Ichiro…I'm sorry" Freya said with tears seeping from her eyes. "This is all my fault… If I hadn't… Please forgive me."
"Don't blame yourself for this. It's not your fault..." Ichiro said. "I was the one who messed up everything"
Amelia laughed psychotically. She paced around her two remaining servants. "You were the one. You were the one who tried to steal my Ichiro-Chan from me" Amelia said with a happy smile on her face, but her words were filled with hatred.
"YOU WERE HURTING US!" Ichiro shouted. "STILL! CAN YOU NOT SEE THAT? AFTER EVERYTHING YOU'VE DONE?" Ichiro said, pleading for her to rethink what she had done, and what she was doing. He was trying to plead to her sanity, but her face turned red. She stomped over to him, and looked down at the chained down servant. She pushed Ichiro's chair down, and he hit his head on the wet ground. His master reamined eerily quiet as she sat on top of his chest and looked down at him, visibly enraged.
Amelia remained still as she eyed him down. The room remained quiet except for the soft recurring sound of dripping water. Ichiro stared back as her towering glare grew more intense as if it was piercing his skull.
The master slammed her hand on the male's throat and gripped on just enough to barely let small breaths pass through. She remained silent, but leaned forward until the two were eye to eye. "You're in love with her." She hissed, raising her hand up in the air.
*SMACK*
His cheek turned a bright red "I loved you more! More than she could ever love you!" She yelled down at him as he grip on his neck grew tighter.
*SMACK*
"You were my servant! You belonged to me and only me!"
*SMACK*
"I made you into a strong warrior! And this is what you do to me!"
*SMACK*
"YOU WERE GOING TO BE MY KING AND I WOULD'VE BEEN YOUR QUEEN!"
*SMACK*
"YOU'RE MINE! NOT HERS! MINE! ALL MINE!"
Amelia's breath was growing heavier as she continued to scream at the top of her lungs, her left eye twitching rapidly and her heartbeat becoming erratic.
*SMACK*
"WE COULD'VE RULED THE WORLD TOGETHER!"
Amelia had finished her sudden outburst and placed Ichiro's chair back up. There was a small stream of red falling from Ichiro's face again. Both his face and Amelia's hand were a bright shade of red. His master's composed look disappeared. Her face was covered with sweat and now her fixed combed hair was a complete mess. Her head hung forward and her disorderly bangs covered her eyes. She let out another cold hard laugh "But we still can be Ichiro-chan," She whispered in his ear, "We can be lovers for all of eternity."
"Stop!" Ichiro shouted as Amelia turned her back to him and walked beside Freya. Amelia pulled her knife out of her belt and held the tip up to the girl's throat. "If I take this one out of the picture, then we can be together forever Ichiro-chan!"
"Amelia, please stop!" Freya screamed trying to save her own life.
"Shut up!" Amelia shouted back, ignoring the screams. "I'll kill her and then I'll erase your memory Ichiro-Chan… You'll forget all these unfaithful servants even existed… Then you'll be mine Ichiro-Chan…then you'll be mine alone..."
"ACK!" Freya's screamed echoed through the air, Ichiro's world froze. Amelia slammed the knife into Freya's leg, and slashed it out of the side as the blade hit many nerves and blood vessels. Her blood gushed everywhere, and even managed to hit Ichiro's face.
"IF ONLY YOU HAD BEEN STRONG ENOUGH"
"I'll KILL YOU"
"IF ONLY YOU HAD BEEN A TRUE WARRIOR"
"I'm GOING TO FUCKING KILL YOU AMELIA"
"IF ONLY YOU HAD LET GO"
"I'LL KILL YOU!"
"IF ONLY YOU HAD ENOUGH HATRED"
Ichiro's world then faded into darkness.
Ichiro slowly opened his eyes, he had an aching headache. He had been sleeping in a pool of blood. "Ichiro…" A wheezing voice called his name. "Ichiro, please get up"
Ichiro quickly jumped up in shock and confusion. His eyes widened in shock…there on the ground laid the head of Amelia Zagan…his master, tormentor, and owner.
"Freya!" Ichiro called out in confusion.
"Ichiro…" Someone weakly answered his call.
Ichiro quickly turned to the corner. "No, no…NO!" Ichiro ran to the corner. "Freya please be ok, I can get help! We can find a nurse, a healer or something…"
Ichiro couldn't take his eyes off of it; in the middle of Freya's stomach was a hole as wide as a basketball. "Ichiro, there's no point" Freya coughed up a pint of blood, tears running down her eyes. "Ichiro…I'm sorry I failed you…I failed to save you from Amelia…I failed to control your temper."
Ichiro stared into Freya's beautiful crystal blue eyes, and she remembered the first day he looked into her eyes. He had fallen in love the minute he looked into them. He remembered all the moments they spent together: growing, training, fighting…she was his first kiss…she couldn't die.
Tears fell from Freya's eyes "Ichiro-Chan, I'm afraid.I'm afraid to die. What's going to happen to me?" She croaked as her body began to shake,
Ichiro felt his heart stop as more tears fell from his eyes, the worst thing a person could ever hear from someone they love, the fear they possessed as they were passing off. Ichiro stepped over to Freya and kissed her passionately on the forehead.
"I always thought I was ready to die, but I'm scared Ichiro-Chan…" More tears fell from her eyes as she felt her entire being slipping away.
Ichiro wrapped her in a hug "Don't be afraid… You go now where many have gone before you. And don't think for a moment you have failed me. I have found comfort in you, you many time before quelled my anger, and you have done it all with love and kindness. Now go now, where many have gone before and where I will go in time. Just know, there will be no more pain, no more heartbreak…" Ichiro then moved over to Freya's ears "…You will find peace and you can finally rest..." he whispered passionately.
Ichiro held onto Freya until the moment she died…
"Moki...Mako…Yuko…Maria…Julie…Abigail…Addison...Elizabeth…Freya…you're all gone…you're all really gone…"
"If only I hadn't been so weak…"
[2 Weeks Later]
Issei followed behind the Occult Research Club through the abandoned and isolated street. Despite it being nightfall with his newfound devil senses he could see as clearly as in the day. And to his surprise he actually felt more stronger during the night unlike during the day, when he had followed Kiba to the Occult Research Club his body felt extremely sluggish. He was told by the others that this would wear off over time but for now it was something he was going to have to get used to. He was a devil afterall.
"You're a devil now Issei." Even though those words were spoken hours ago, those words still rang heavily in the brown-haired teen's ears.
A devil now? What does that even mean? Was he a creature of darkness who seemed to devour the soul of humans and to corrupt the innocent into doing wickedly deeds. Issei turned towards the other members of the Occult Research Club.
The thought of someone like Rias Gremory or Akeno Himejima devouring souls seemed too otherworldly to him so he simply shook the idea away. Having already seen his own demonic wings, he knew there was no turning back from the fate that had been chosen for him.
It all started with a simple date that went downhill way too fast as soon as that girl he was beginning to love shoved a spear straight through his heart. His second encounter with a fallen angel, where he was once again saved by Rias Gremory along with the other members of the Occult Research Club, after that painful moment he was been told about his bizarre fate and what he had become.
If things played out differently he would've died, but he would rather become a devil than being six feet under. And after being told that his dream of Harem King was now a possible reality by working as a devil, he couldn't just simply walk away from that. So, he made it his goal to reach the rank of a High-Class Devil and become the Harem King.
"Enough monologuing, we're here." Koneko said plainly.
Issei turned towards the white-haired girl in front of him who was staring at him with a emotionless expression. After only two interactions with her, he could guarantee with certainty that she was the soul devourer of the group.
"Buchou, do you feel that?" The blonde knight asked. Even Issei the newest devil of the group could feel the hostile aura radiating from the building.
It was the same danger Issei felt when the fallen angel Dohnaseek attacked him the previous night. However instead of pure killing intent, the aura radiating from the building was just pure anger and somehow mixed with sorrow. It wasn't directed at any entity or being, but simply felt like it was a sort of disease spreading.
"Buchou, what's going on?" Issei turned towards the Crimson Haired Princess, however she was too busy staring at the building with her mouth agape. "Buchou?"
Rias blinked and turned towards her cute pawn with a small smile on her face. "Issei, remember what I told you about stray devils?"
Issei thought back to the words Rias spoken before the group left, stray devils, wicked devil servants who abandon their master to pursue their own goals, most strays involved end up eating humans and transforming into ugly monsters. Corrupted by their own heinous goals and and with no master to keep their power in check, they end up going insane. This is what makes them very dangerous and why they must be taken down as quickly as possible.
But Rias could feel the unnatural power radiating from the abandoned church. She turned towards the cross on the door, which had been shattered into pieces and the statue of St. Mary had been demolished.
It was common for stray devils and fallen angels to turn abandoned churches into their base of operations.
"Akeno" The Crimson Haired Princess turned towards her queen who had been idly waiting by her side the entire time.
"Yes Buchou-San?" Akeno said with a smile.
"How long did my brother say it would take him to get here?"
'Wait!' Issei thought to himself with a shock, "The Archduke? Rias's Onii-Sama is coming?" Issei turned towards Kiba who simply smiled and nodded, confirming his suspicious. He had just learned he was a devil, and now he was going to meet the King of Hell himself.
"For your Onii-Sama and my Onee-Sama to be making an appearance tonight the situation must be a complex one." The Occult Research Club looked up in shock to see the President of Kuoh Academy herself standing there.
"Wait, Kaichou knows about devils and this supernatural stuff?" Issei asked.
Rias was the one who corrected him by shaking her head, "Sona here, is my old friend, and she's a devil as well, the future head of the Sitri clan"
"It's a pleasure to meet the newest servant of Rias Gremory." Sona said looking the new brown-haired devil up and down.
"Speaking of which, about our stray devil situation, Leviathan-Sama is coming as well?"
"I just received word from her, she warned me that this boy was dangerous, however we aren't to kill him due to Diehauser's message to Lucifer-Sama".
"Emperor-Sama? What does he have to do with this?" Rias asked in shock.
"Emperor-Sama, Lucifer-Sama, and Leviathan-Sama? Fufufu, it looks like we're in for quite the party" Akeno said with a smile.
"I'm just as clueless about this situation as you are," Sona said fixing the glasses on her face, "I guess our only way to solve this puzzle is to make our way in and find the pieces ourselves."
"Do you plan on bringing your peerage?" Rias asked, noticing that Sitri-Sama was alone.
"My group is busy handling a different situation now. I told them to stay back and protect my newest servants," Sona then turned towards the St. Mary statue and cross, "These things look more like the work of a vengeful spirit than a stray devil. Purposely destroying the symbols of the church?"
"Sona, do you mind waiting for my Onii-Sama and your Onee-Sama out here while my group leads the investigation?"
Sona nodded, after all, since her peerage wasn't here now it was the best plan of action. "If you need any help just send me a signal."
Rather than waste any time coming up with a complex sneak attack plan, from experience the group knew the best way to deal with a stray was to simply barge right in so Koneko broke the door open and the group walked inside.
"Buchou do you hear that?" Issei asked, for some odd reason he was feeling an intense twitch from his left arm, as if his sacred gear was trying to get him to run away.
"Is that howling?" Akeno turned towards Rias a confused expression on her face, until realization struck her and her eyes widened in shock. The group was surrounded and they could hear sounds all around them.
Scratching on the wall, the screaming and howling, even the sound of chewing.
Issei could feel the hairs on his neck began to stand up. "Buchou, what's going on here?" Issei asked as he noticed a tall figure made of shadows walk past them out of the house.
"It seems this abandoned church has become a ghost nest," Akeno said with a smile, "Buchou, would it be fine if I purged all the spirits?" The sadistic smile on her face making Issei's skin crawl.
Rias put her hand on her chin as she began to think, "Ghosts are attracted to negative feelings like anger and sadness," she looked at her rook, Koneko, who could feel these emotions the highest, "But this many, intermingling with a stray devil at that, this makes no sense."
It was then a little girl of a ghost began to walk towards the group, the eye-patch on her left eye and the blood running down her shirt made the color on Issei's face disappear. However instead of attacking or even putting up a fight, the girl pointed towards the stairs.
"Spirit, are you leading us towards the stray?" Rias asked.
Instead of answering her question, the ghost levitated and disappeared, going through a wall.
Akeno turned towards Rias, "I guess we have no choice but to comply."
As the group made their way up the stairs, it was hard for Issei to keep his eyes focused forward, on making his way through the dark church. If it wasn't for the fact that due to his new "devil vision" he could see through the darkness he would have called the others crazy for going through a haunted church at night.
"Hey Issei" Issei felt a soft hand poke his back and turned around to see his new master staring at him with a worried look on her face.
"Y-yes Buchou?" Issei asked, scratching his neck and trying to keep his emotions in check despite all the spirits around him.
"Your senses are still adjusting to your body, however eventually you'll be able to see the true appearances of these spirits. When you can see them, promise me you won't scream, some spirits tend to have very frightening looks."
Issei smiled and waved off Rias's concerns in a effort to look cool, "Don't worry Buchou, I can handle these spirits myself!"
Issei noticed a spirit staring him down he turned around to see a hole where it's heart was supposed to be and a wide grin with bleeding gums. He tried to laugh it off, but the others could tell his body was shaking.
"We're here, scaredy cat." Koneko said in her monotone voice as she pushed Issei forward.
Issei stared at the huge decorated door which lead to the chapel.
"Why would a church this big get abandoned?" He wondered out loud.
"When churches fall out of disuse and they no longer become sites of worship for humans, they will lose their status as a site of holy worship which allows unholy creatures like fallen angels, stray devils, and apparitions to take advantage of them. It may be due to lack of funding of the church, a lack of membership, natural disasters, or a wide variety of problems that affect human lives." Akeno explained.
Issei thought back to the church his parents used to attend, he wondered if now that he was a devil if he would be able to go there again.
Rias pushed open the double door of the corridor to see various spirits who all turned towards her. Some seemed to be standing still in place while other ghosts shuffled through walls or walked through the chapel benches.
However, the figure that stood out the most was the boy sitting on the ground, standing behind a line of candles.
Koneko however had a shocked expression on her face as the boy looked into her eyes.
Despite refusing to use ki she could still sense the emotions radiating from this boy. Was it distrust? Fear? Madness? Hatred? Or a combination of all of the above. This was unusual for a stray devil. Most stray devils tended to be visibly psychotic by a depraved indulgence in pleasure.
It almost reminded the girl of a newly fallen, fallen angel.
"Have you all come here to die?" When these cold words escaped the boy's lips the others could help but feel shock.
"Quit hiding behind the candles stray" Rias commanded.
Those gold orbs. Such beautiful eyes for a stray Rias thought. However, despite being so beautiful the cold expression cut through Rias's soul.
"Koneko, are you ok?" Rias turned away from the boy and turned towards her knight, Yuuto, and rook, Koneko. The girl was shaking. Was she afraid of this stray or was it something else?
She turned back towards the stray and finally she realized why her rook was shaking.
He looked like something out of a horror movie.
"What happened to you?" Yuuto said. He was the only one with the courage to speak.
The stray was a young boy about 5'3 with messy spiky silver hair covered with dirt and matching lifeless gold eyes. Despite the inhospitable expression, they still looked beautiful. He wore ragged clothing, and broken handcuffs around both wrists. But the worst part was the burn marks in the shape of a cross on his right cheek. Holy water burns covered his entire arms and faces. There was the dirt stuck in his hair, face, and any part of his skin showing through the ripped and tattered clothing. Rias also noticed the carelessly treated slash wounds on his limbs that had small trickles of blood leaking from them.
"We were given orders by the Archduke not to kill you, but that doesn't mean we aren't prepared to use force if necessary." Rias said these words with conviction laced behind them however seeing the boy in such a condition she didn't know if she was truly up for a fight.
"Um, Buchou?" Issei said with a nervous expression, Rias turned towards her new pawn to see the worried expression on her face she then began to realize how silent the room had become.
She turned around and that was when she noticed the source of her Pawn's concern.
All the ghosts in the room were staring directly at the group, forming an apparition mob around them. Yuuto pulled out his sword and Issei summoned his boosted gear while Koneko and Akeno both got ready for the possibility of an attack.
Despite his injuries the boy still had the strength get into a fight stance as he glared at the group.
Rias looked around at all the ghosts before coming up with a plan for her peerage, "Kiba and Koneko, I want you both to handle the stray while me and Akeno will handle the ghosts, and Issei I want you to stand on guard as back-up."
While the plan wasn't perfect, it was the best she could do in such a situation. Koneko's physical strength wouldn't be very useful against spirits, and Issei wasn't skillful enough to fight a stray like this now. Meanwhile with Akeno's and her own magic, they would fare well against the horde of spirits.
Akeno wasted no time summoning three magical sigils around her, "Fufu, you spirits want to play with me?" She glamoured them as lightning lighted up the room and the fight began.
The boy wasted no time rushing at Rias, the leader of the group, swinging a irregular spear at her.
"Buchou" Issei was about to launch forward when Yuuto beat him to the punch using his knight speed.
"You don't mind if I take you down" Yuuto said casually as he retaliated by pivoting on his foot and swinging his sword gracefully at the stray's shoulder.
Rias didn't have time to retaliate back as she had to focus on the task at hand, instead leaving the work to her knight and rook, as she struck down another ghost with her demonic energy.
Yuuto stared into the boy's wild eyes as he deflected every strike the stray launched at him with that purple spear. "You're skillful for a stray, I'll give you that." He smiled.
Before the boy could respond Koneko ran behind him and delivered a punch to his back causing him to go flying forward. It was obvious for the two that the boy wasn't a rook with a defense that weak.
Rias and Akeno were both too busy with their own fight to help her other servants. The ghosts were moving like a angry mob, trying to scratch or strike at the two girls any way they could.
[Power of Destruction] Rias launched a orb of her power at two of the ghosts causing them to disappear.
[Lightning] Akeno shocked three more ghosts to the ground however more were still surrounding the raven haired girl.
"BUCHOU!"
[Boost]
As if on instinct, Issei pushed Rias out of the way of one of the ghost's fire attack causing the fire to completely burn one of the couches.
The stray devil boy looked over at his spear which had went flying across the room. Showing no fear he dashed forward at Koneko and delivered a barrage of speedy punches causing the girl to fly in the air. Before he could finish with an axe kick, Yuuto dashed forward and cut the boy across the boy's chest.
"A knight I assume?" Yuuto said casually as he swung his sword again only for the boy to block and reappear behind Yuuto before the boy could strike a hand reached out and grabbed the stray by the wrist.
It was then Rias started to realize that despite all the ghosts she had defeated, her and Issei were both surrounded, there were almost fifty of them remaining, RIas turned towards her queen to see she was backed in a corner as well. Rias outstretched her hands, ready to charge up her demonic energy into one concentrated blasts until she felt a hand grab onto her shoulder.
"Ria-ta are you ok?" Koneko, Yuuto, and the stray turned around to see a much older version of Rias with long red hair holding onto the Gremory princess's shoulder. To the surprise of the three, all the ghosts were running out of the building, it resembled a mass exorcism, something you would see out of a horror movie.
The stray devil began to realize, Sirzechs Lucifer wasn't doing this intentionally, his power was so great that it was causing the weak apparitions to run in fear. He looked up at the figure holding his wrist to see a man who looked to be in his mid 20s with spiky green hair and blue eyes.
"Ajuka" The stray said with fiery eyes suddenly two black pit bull-like monsters appeared from the stray's magical sigil and rushed at Rias and Sirzechs.
"Onii-Sama" Rias said about to summon her magic.
"I got it." Sirzechs said with a calm grin as he annihilated the two beasts in an instant.
'Did he really think an attack like that would work against Lucifer?' Issei thought.
"I was just making sure you were the real deal." The stray said, still holding up his cold expression.
"So, now that this spectacle is over can we go outside and speak?" Ajuka said calmly before turning to his best friend Sirzechs.
Sirzechs nodded and the group exited the abandoned church with Ajuka holding onto Ichiro's shoulder.
When the group exited the church Issei realized that the student council president wasn't alone, standing next to her was a man with graceful grey eyes and grey hair. And hugging tightly on the student council president was a beautiful girl looking in her late teens with black hair, tied into twin tails and blue eyes. Unlike the other three men, she was wearing a pink magical girl costume that contrasted greatly with the other's royal-like appearance.
"Serafall-Sama and Emperor-Sama, it's nice to see you here." Rias said with a grateful smile, acknowledging the two respectfully.
"Rias-Chan, it's nice to see you again!" Serafall said with a smile, still holding onto her sister, who clearly was embarrassed by her. Issei couldn't help but manage a chuckle, he didn't know Sona personally but whenever he saw her in the hallways or in the courtyard at Kuoh she was always so serious, seeing her in such a manner was shocking and comical.
"Ajuka-Chan, is that the stray devil?" Sona asked, causing everyone returned to the topic at hand. They all looked down at the boy with silver hair, and he wasn't even resisting anymore. He may have been angry and spiteful, but he wasn't stupid enough to fight off three Great Satans and someone with power on par to an Ultimate-Class devil at once.
"Yes," Ajuka said, refusing to let go of the boy in case he tried to run, it resembled a older sibling holding onto a younger sibling. "This is Ichiro Alastor".
"Alastor?" Rias said with a shocked expression, "I thought all the Alastors were gone, they died during the Civil War."
"Well I guess you were fed lies sweet heart" Rias glared at the little boy who returned the favor with more hostility on his face.
Rias let out a sigh feeling that in this situation the stray devil boy wasn't worth it she then turned back to Diehauser Belial, "I still don't understand your role in this Diehauser, and why you decided to join this matter, "And why were we refused from eliminating this stray devil?"
"Because, we want to know the entire story before we make a final decision." Ajuka said before Ichiro could respond.
"Rias, is it fine if we return to your clubhouse to discuss this matter?" Sirzechs said with a kind smile.
"That would be fine" Rias then turned towards her peerage, "Kiba, Koneko, and Issei, you three are dismissed for today, you may return home for tonight".
[Yes Buchou] the three said in unison, even though Issei didn't want to leave Rias alone with the stray, he decided to comply with her orders as he left with Koneko and Kiba.
Ichiro was surprised by the gothic appearance of the Occult Research Club. The club had Victorian-style furniture and was very well-kept and clean which contrasted heavily with the exterior of the building which was covered by vines and surrounded by thick green trees which added a sort of mysterious vibe to the clubroom's appearance.
Because the three Great Satans were here, neither Rias or Sona saw the point in binding him.
Ajuka pulled out a small device and scrolled through it before coming across a file for Ichiro. Most stray devils were eliminated on the spot so keeping records or even remembering them for that matter was considered pointless, however on special occasions Ajuka would do research on strays in case trials were needed.
"Ichiro Alastor, a middle-class devil, you took the middle-class exam in the Underworld a few years ago. You were the servant of Amelia Zagan who had a total of fifteen servants. You were the only boy in the peerage and consumed a total of 2 knight pieces, one regular knight piece and her extra mutation piece".
Sirzechs took in the information with a nod, "Can you explain your injuries to me. What happened to you?" Sirzechs asked, looking directly at the cross mark on his face.
The boy let out a sarcastic laugh that put everyone on edge, "Do you really want to know this story? Just thinking about it makes me sick to my stomach, but I think you already know how this story goes and how it ends"
Serafall walked towards the boy with a serious expression, "Please tell us what happened that night."
Ichiro turned towards Diehauser with a cold smile as he held up a necklace, it was a simple emerald necklace with a small silver chain. "Does this mean you admit to killing Amelia and the rest of your fellow servants?" Diehauser said calmly, trying not to react to the necklace.
"Killing the other servants? My own household? No that wasn't my work, that was Amelia's own work. I just got revenge on her."
"Why are you so injured? Please explain to me what happened in that church."
"A few days ago, some fallen angels came to me, saying they wanted me to join their group, and I refused."
"Were they the ones who did this to you?" Sirzechs asked.
The boy let out a cold laugh, "As much as you would like for my injuries and my actions to be blamed on another species, it wasn't."
"He's not trying to blame anyone he's just trying to figure out what-" Sirzechs proceeded to put his hand on his little sister's shoulder and smiled to calm her down.
"You've been missing for about two weeks. When Diehauser planned to visit Amelia, he noticed the… corpses." Sirzechs could see the emotions breaking through the boy's face, the same emotions he was trying to hide.
"Yeah, Amelia decided to kill her peerage because we tried to run away from her abuse. And it was all the fault of Lord Belial" Ichiro said, angrily pointing a finger at Diehauser.
"Emperor-Sama? How can he possibly be the cause of all of this?" Sona said, Ichiro wasn't making much sense to her. To her this was simply the rambling of an insane stray devil. She turned towards Sirzechs, expecting this joke of a trial to end any minute now with Ichiro either being eliminated or sentenced to the Cocytus.
"I was the one who found out about his existence and gave him to Amelia Zagan to become her knight. I take responsibility for my hand in this situation" when the words escaped Diehauser's mouth even Sirzechs and Ajuka looked surprised.
"The St. Anne's Orphanage in England. You were the one who told Amelia about this?"
"No, I didn't know which orphanage but I knew there was one living Alastor, I had found out about your supposed existence during a investigation of mine. I knew that if anyone found out about your roots, you would have enemies and people who wanted to use you for power so I wanted Amelia to take you as a servant for your own protection".
Ichiro let out a mocking laugh as he grin maliciously at Diehauser, "You claim to not want me to be used for power but you put me in the hands of someone who used me for just that," Ichiro then pointed a finger at Diehauser, "You're a fool, Amelia was training me to help overthrow the Underworld government".
"That seems like an outrageous claim. She expected that you would be powerful enough to accomplish that feat?" Sirzechs asked.
"She wanted me to master my Power of Soul plus with an army of the Old Satan Faction she believed we would be unstoppable" Ichiro answered. "Even though Amelia wanted to overthrow the Underworld she was kind to me and her peerage and treated us like family. She trained us, wanted to help us reach our dreams. Despite her own dreams and goals, she was a kind master."
"Then what happened?" Sirzechs asked.
"Siris died"
"Siris, she was Amelia Zagan's queen, the Valkyrie girl who couldn't fly" Diehauser answered.
Ichiro nodded, "She died when Amelia tried to steal the holy sword from the church. A exorcist cut her down. After that, Amelia went mad. She tortured and experimented on her servants until we tried to run away, after that…"
"We saw the torture chamber and I saw the chains on the wall. This seemed too complex for a stray devil, which is why I didn't simply sentence you to death." Sirzechs answered.
"Amelia went missing a few years ago, not responding or even talking to me, when she finally reached out to me I was surprised, but then I found her dead."
"She reached out to you to ask you to join her cause. Amelia became a self-serving monster, who would do anything to get what she wanted."
After that the air in the room grew quiet. Was he a self-serving stray devil or was he just a helpless boy who was tortured and scarred by his former master? To break the silence Diehauser decided to speak "Ichiro, I- "
Without hesitation Ichiro rushed Diehauser, a knife in his hand and tried to stab the devil in the face only for him to grab his hands and push him against the wall.
"What are you doing?!" Diehauser asked, as he held onto Ichiro's hands.
"I hate you and I'm going to kill you" Ichiro said it so calmly and coldly that the others didn't even know how to react Ichiro broke free from Diehauser's grasp and was about to continue his assault when Sirzechs got between the two.
"That's enough" Sirzechs said as he glared at the two. "Attacking someone at your own trial that doesn't look good for you."
"I don't care" Ichiro said, suddenly black aura began to circle around the boy's right arm, suddenly a gauntlet appeared.
"A sacred gear?"
"Rias, it's more troublesome than that" Sona was the first to answer, "That's not a regular dragon arm, is it?"
It was a black gauntlet with a purple jewel on the center and two black spikes at the end of the gauntlet. You could see golden symbols and runes dancing around the gauntlet.
"The Chaos Gear, the host of the False Chaos Dragon Emperor Khaos" Ajuka said, "I thought that sacred gear was destroyed a century ago".
Ichiro let out a burst of aura as two devil wings jetted from his back, he glared his killing intent at Diehauser as he charged forward.
[Boost] Ichiro burst forward with his fist out aiming like a missile towards Diehauser. Instead of dodging Diehauser put his hands out to block only for the two to go crashing out of the building and into the grassy field.
"Should we break them up?" Rias asked as she summoned a magic sigil prepared to attack Ichiro.
"No," Sirzechs said holding his hand out, "We should let them work this out themselves".
"So, tell me Ichiro," Diehauser said, wiping some dust off himself, "Why do you hate me so much? What did I do to you to fill you with such madness?"
"The only reason Amelia wanted that sword was because she learned I could wield Heavenly Blades. If it wasn't for me becoming her servant she would have never attacked the church, Siri wouldn't have died and she wouldn't have gone insane and killed the others. This is your fault Diehauser, therefore I hate you. And why I'll have my revenge."
Diehauser turned towards Ichiro, "if you truly believe this then come on and fight me".
Ichiro pulled three kunai from his back pocket and tossed them at Diehauser.
[Boost] combining his sacred gear with his speed he launched himself towards Diehauser again, dark purple aura surrounding his figure.
"There's no way he can take on Emperor."
Diehauser casually dodged all the knives and turned around to swing his foot at Ichiro. Ichiro dropped to the ground to dodge the attack before bringing his leg up to Diehauser's chin. "Give up." Diehauser said swinging Ichiro around before tossing him at a tree.
Diehauser was already losing his drive to fight, seeing how weak this boy was.
[Boost] Choosing not to give up Ichiro began circling around Diehauser leaving after-images where he previously stood. Deciding to play with him Diehauser began launching blasts of demonic energy at Ichiro only for him to miss each one.
"You're persistent."
[Break] Rias gasped in surprise as two Ichiros both launched at Diehauser from opposite directions. Diehauser dodged the attacks from once while outstretching his hand to blast the other with his demonic energy.
'Where did this boy possibly learn magic like this?' Sirzechs thought as he continued to watch.
[Chaos Ringer] Suddenly black and purple energy began charging around the devil once again, Diehauser wasn't even trying or using his full strength but Ichiro was using all of his energy in a desperate attempt to hurt the devil.
[DARK CREATION] Two black wolves charged Diehauser, one biting onto his leg while the other aimed for his neck only to be cut down.
[SOUL POLLUTION] Ajuka and Sirzechs both turned to the air and that was when they witnessed hundreds, if not thousand of apparitions.
"Is he drawing in those ghosts?" Rias and Sona concluded with shocked expressions at they turned back towards the fight. All the ghosts then charged Diehauser attempting to hit and cut him from multiple directions.
"YOU BASTARD" suddenly the ghosts erupted as they began to destroy the landscape and the Occult Research club. Using a simple ice spell, Serafall created a barrier to defend herself and the others from the ghosts.
"There's no mistaking it," Ajuka said with a serious expression, "He has to be the son of Alastor."
Ichiro charged Diehauser like a animal hellbent on murder, he began launching punches and kicks at the Emperor not caring or showing concern for the people around him. "DAMN YOU, DAMN YOU, DAMN YOU, DAMN YOU!" With each punch and kick he launched, he cursed the Belial Lord's name.
"It was never my intention for her to go mad. I simply thought it would be the best place for you." Diehauser explained.
"You're the reason Freya's dead! You're the reason they're all dead!" As Ichiro began to get angrier dark purple aura began to erupt around Ichiro.
"Rias-Sama, if we don't stop him he's going to harm our school." Sona said, realizing that the ghosts and aura were already hitting the trees. If it wasn't for Serafall's ice barrier, the Occult Research Club would have been destroyed by now.
"Not just the Alastor bloodline but a sacred gear as well?" Ajuka said, his initial scan had been right from this start, except this boy didn't just possess a sacred gear he also had a special ability unique to this boy's blood. "So this is how you killed Amelia." Diehauser said turning towards the boy.
"It's time for you to die!"
[Absorption] Suddenly the group realized that yellow light started flowing into the boy's sacred gear. The group then watched as the lights from the inside of the Occult Research club began to go off.
"Is this boy absorbing light?" Rias asked, in shock.
[BOOST]
Ichiro charged Diehauser, launching a punch at him before following up with an ax kick. Diehauser blocked the kick but it caused cracks to run through the ground below him.
"So not only does his sacred gear allow him to absorb energy, it then allows him to use this energy to increase his strength. So, what is this? An abnormal dragon's arm sacred gear?" Sirzechs turned towards Ajuka, the only one in the group who studied such things.
"It appears so" Ajuka said, "Diehauser, hurry up and finish this fight before things gets too ugly for this town." Ajuka commanded.
"Sorry boy" Gray energy began to swirl around Diehauser, "You're going to have to be executed." Diehauser's demonic power began to release the ghosts began to jump back and fear, and some even running away.
Before Diehauser could even attack, Ichiro's body went flying as he skidded across the ground and he landed head first into a tree. The grey-haired man paused as he realized the Satan Leviathan was standing in front of him.
"That's enough Diehauser-Chan" Serafall said, "I won't let you to harm this boy any more." The anger, the hatred, and fear she was sensing from Ichiro, she realized that his story was true. Amelia was the monster, not him.
The apparitions began to disappear along with Ichiro's aura and the sacred gear. His wings jetted back into his body fell to the ground.
"Lord Belial, it's about time you explain yourself" Sirzechs said with a serious expression.
"We both know this boy couldn't stand a chance against you, what was the point of toying with him?" Rias asked, despite the boy having been her enemy a couple of minutes ago, after watching Diehauser beat him down mercilessly she was starting to feel a bit sympathetic towards him.
"To be honest with you Lady Gremory, I was starting to lose interest in this battle as well. I wanted him to showcase the power he used to kill Amelia Zagan, and this boy has a lot of tricks up his sleeve, but to murder a high-class devil like Amelia? There's no way he could have managed that."
"What was your relationship to Amelia?" Sirzechs asked.
"Amelia was a friend of mine. Because her clan was gone and she was believed to be the last living Zagan, all the other clan heads decided to ignore her and outcast her. After Beelzebub-Sama gave her those evil pieces she was lonely. Not even low-class devils wanted to become her servants and that was when I found this boy, the son of a Alastor and a Pendragon" Sirzechs explained.
Rias turned towards Sirzechs and realized the cold and hollow expression of shock on his face,
"Onee-Sama, what's wrong?"
"You mean they had a living child that even I didn't know about?" Sirzechs asked.
"Who is they?" Rias and Sona then began to realize it wasn't just Sirzechs but Ajuka and Serafall who shared their shock.
"Camilla Pendragon and Seth Alastor, they were friends of ours who fought with us during the conclusion of the Great War and the Devil Civil War. They died sixteen years ago at the hands of a powerful enemy. How did you find out about their son let alone even know they had one?" Sirzechs asked, staring at the boy, it now made sense. That silver hair and those gold colored eyes.
Diehauser looked SIrzechs in the eyes to emphasize his response, "It was unintentional, I was investigating some of the devil terrorist groups that had been springing up around that decade when this boy's name came up."
Rias recalled hearing some stories about a powerful young devil who joined the Great War when it was nearing an end. She also heard some personal stories about Sirzechs's friend who died during the Civil Wars in the Underworld.
Sona turned towards the Occult Research Club, the power was out, even though nobody had done this. She looked towards the school to see even street lights had been disabled. "He wasn't just boosting his power, he was absorbing the light from the surrounding area for his power.
Serafall tugged onto Ichiro's body as he tried to rush Diehauser again "Ichiro, that's enough you don't have to fight anymore" Putting the conversation on hold the group turned towards Serafall and Ichiro, who was beginning to wake up. His right arm was glowing with golden runes despite his sacred gear not appearing.
Ichiro began walking towards Diehauser, his killing intent made clear, "I'll-kill-you." he said slowly as he pulled his hand back.
{That's enough boy.} it was a deep and rumbling voice that seemed to shake all the individuals to their core. Despite the dark tone behind the voice, the individual seemed to be showing genuine concern towards Ichiro.
"That voice," however before the group could react a glowing light released from Ichiro's arm and when it died down, Serafall, Sirzechs, and Ichiro collapsed to the ground unconscious leaving the remaining Satan alone with just Diehauser and the two heiresses.
"What was that voice and power?" Rias asked worriedly, running to her Onii-Sama's body and wonder what fate befell her brother. They all turned towards the unconscious body of Ichiro, his right arm still glowing with golden runes.
[Ichiro's Mind]
Sirzechs and Serafall both scanned their new surroundings. They were no longer standing in front of the Occult Research Club surrounded by the trees that concealed the old school building, they were in a hallway, between two long bring walls that seemed to stretch on forever and ever.
"What kind of teleportation magic is this?" Sirzechs asked his fellow Maou only for her to shrug her shoulders.
"This room feels off." Serafall said suspiciously. She leaned against the wall only to quickly jump up a sharp gasp escaping from her mouth.
"Serafall, what's the matter?" Sirzechs asked confused.
"The wall is moving!" Serafall said.
Sirzechs placed his hand on the wall before quickly taking his hand off. "It feels like a heartbeat and the wall is warm." Sirzechs said. "Did that boy have another trick up his sleeve?"
It was then the two noticed it, the two rooms. It was as if the two doors had suddenly come out of nowhere and one of the doors opened. Resembling something akin to an teenager's bedroom. There were scattered devices everywhere including a wide assortment of video games and even some posters, there were candy and snack wrappers lying all over the floor, and furniture including a bed.
"This looks like a young boy's room." Sirzechs said as he glanced around the room.
The two then turned towards the other door. Unlike this room it was closed. But it was as if something was telling them to keep out. It wasn't like there was sound coming from the room but it was as if a dark aura was screaming for them to keep out.
"Sirzechs-Chan, I think I know where we are…" Serafall said.
The Crimson Haired Lucifer turned towards Serafall, a confused expression on his face, "Where?"
"I think we're in his mind." Serafall concluded.
Sirzechs was about to pass this off as his fellow Maou being silly but it was actually starting to make sense. Considering that voice that came from nowhere, them waking up in a hallway with two different doors. They could be in his mind.
Sirzechs boldly stepped towards the second door and pushed it open it was then he saw him, the boy with the silver hair and gold eyes.
"Explain yourself" Sirzechs said calmly. Serafall poised up, preparing for a fight if she had to.
"I didn't think you both would actually come in my room" the boy said with an annoyed expression on his face.
"Enough with the games and just tell us where we are." Sirzechs said, back at Ichiro trying to remain as calm as possible.
"The Maou Leviathan guessed it right, you're in my mind. The dragon inside my sacred gear sent you both here." Ichiro said.
"Follow me and don't get lost." Ichiro said as he opened the other door, revealing a heavy and complicated dark maze.
"Where are you taking us?" Serafall asked.
"To meet the dragon"
"You mean the Chaos Dragon Emperor" Sirzechs said walking behind Sirzechs, "I've meet him once when I was very young and he was sealed inside a sacred gear, he was rowdy and loved to instigate fights, I wonder how much he changed since then." Sirzechs replied.
"How long until we're finally there, we've been walking for hours" Sirzechs said with sigh. As much as he wanted to believe in Ichiro, they had passed by hundreds of doors and he was starting to believe Ichiro was just playing with them. He knew his Ria-Tan must be worried sick about him, when the Chaos Dragon sucked them into Ichiro's mind his body must've feel unconscious.
Serafall looked like a kid in a candy store, she wanted to explore all the different doors in this labyrinth like tunnel. But she felt that would be intruding on Ichiro's private thoughts and felt it would be wrong.
"Of course, it feels like hours to you, you're in my mind remember, 20 million bits of information fire off a second. By the time you leave it will probably only have been a few minutes." Ichiro said nonchalantly waving off Sirzechs concerns.
"Don't worry Ichiro-Chan, we know you're trying your best!" Serafall said cheerily patting Ichiro on the back playfully.
Ichiro's cheeks turned bright red as he turned away from Serafall, "Thanks".
The Crimson Haired Maou suppressed a laugh at Ichiro's predicament. There's no way this is the same kid as before'. The Maou thought about the situation to himself. During the battle with Diehauser, Ichiro had acted like a mad beast wanting to destroy and devour everything with his power, he wanted to kill. Sirzechs was sure that with that personality he was the killer of Amelia Zagan no doubt.
But the Ichiro he was seeing now there was no way they were the same person. He was blushing because an older woman talked to him. He was still an arrogant smart ass but he wasn't homicidal. He seemed like a normal teenager, a little dark, but still a normal teenager "So Ichiro-Kun, do you mind explaining to me what that room before was?"
Sirzechs couldn't get it out of his head, that child's room. It was full of toys, video games, snack wrappers, candy bars, etc. It was like a playroom. "Oh, you're talking about my room…" Ichiro said putting his hands on his back.
"You're room? You mean you share your mind with someone else?", to an ordinary human talk like this would be viewed as a sign of madness but the Maou Lucifer had seen a lot of strange and crazy things throughout his life. If what this boy is saying was true and not him toying with two Maous, this could mean he wasn't entirely responsible for Amelia's murder.
"Well there's this other guy, Kaos typically keeps him locked behind this door."
'Kaos?' Sirzechs thought to himself, that was the name of the Chaos Dragon Emperor all right, he was believed to have been erased from existence a century ago, when his sacred gear was destroyed.
Before the three could react, the floor crumbled under their feet. The two Maous stretched out their wings hoping to fly out of harm's way but their wings weren't working.
The three devils were rendered helpless as they went falling through the pitch-black darkness.
When Sirzechs opened his eyes the first thing he saw was Ichiro standing above him but to his surprise he was crying. "What happened to you?" Sirzechs asked.
"…" he didn't even respond as he ran away.
"Lucifer-Sama, Leviathan-Sama, get up" Sirzechs almost did a double take as he turned towards Serafall to see Ichiro standing over him, an annoying expression on his face.
'Didn't I just see him run off in the opposite direction?' Sirzechs thought to himself as he turned towards the direction he saw the "other Ichiro" run off to.
{ROARRRRR} The two Maou stood up and standing before them was a large and very long red Chinese dragon, almost double the size of a football field. He had golden-like yellow eyes and a blue gem in the center of his forehead. His mouth resembled two jaws with two rows of sharp teeth. His arms had large claws and he possessed two pairs of giant red wings.
"Kaos, the Dragon of Chaos." Sirzechs smiled as he looked at the great beast, "You haven't changed a bit".
"I'm ready!" Serafall said with a determined expression on her face as she looked up at the dragon. If they had to fight their way out of Ichiro's mind they would do it.
{Devil Kings, I didn't call you here to fight} The dragon bellowed to the two Maous.
"Then explain why you did call us here dragon?" Sirzechs asked, hoping to handle this situation peacefully.
"You went missing over a century ago after that fallen angel stole you from your wielder. Everyone thought your sacred gear was destroyed and your soul got erased." Serafall added.
{An extraction ritual was performed on my body by a fallen angel at the time. The fallen angel used the ritual to take me from the current human I was possessing. I stayed with that crow for a long time and learned a lot about magic, my dragon telepathy abilities, and much more. I stayed with him until the day he died and I woke up a century later in the body of Ichiro Alastor} Kaos explained.
"Can you just get to the point already" Ichiro said as he stomped his foot impatiently.
{Hold your tongue, boy} Kaos said angrily. Kaos glared at Ichiro and using some basic telekinesis Ichiro's body went flying into a chair. Ichiro crossed his arms in anger, but listened to the words of the dragon.
{I came here to act as a witness testimony for Ichiro to prove his innocence.}
Serafall and Sirzechs turned towards one another, this could be some sort of elaborate trick just to force them to pardon the boy so the two could work on spreading chaos across the human world. The dragon didn't gain the nickname "The Dragon of Chaos" from just anywhere. Kaos was a dragon known for rampaging across the Underworld, Heaven, and even Earth just for fun. He was known as a vicious and terrifying dragon who was feared even among gods.
But this dragon was different from what his history showed him to be. This dragon seemed kinder and wiser. The two Maou turned towards each other before turning back towards the dragon
"Alright dragon, give your testimony." Sirzechs said.
{What you are dealing with, this stray devil, is an unusual case}
"What do you mean?" Serafall asked curiously staring into Kaos's yellow dragon eyes.
{I have been with this boy ever since he was an infant. Forced to endure every idiotic thought that came to his mind, forced to watch him be bullied by kids at the orphanage, forced to accompany every relationship he had with every member of his former peerage and especially, forced to witness him cry, get angry, and pledge loyalty to his former master. And worst of all… Forced to watch him be tortured by her}
"I thought Amelia was a kind and noble master. Was she really as abusive as you say she was?" Sirzechs asked.
{She was always a snake. Just as he said before, she wanted to take over the underworld for herself and use Ichiro's powers to accomplish that goal. But things changed when she lost the valkyrie to the Church of England}
"Why would the Church of England murder her queen?" Serafall asked.
{Because she learned that Ichiro possessed the ability to wield the swords of the Heaven. The Heavenly Blades or Holy Swords}
"If this is true, then that is a bold and arrogant thing to do."
{Correct, Amelia Zagan was blinded by ambition. She sent her entire peerage to the church of England to steal the Heavenly Blades stationed there with a laughable attempt for preparation. During the mission her peerage got split up and her queen Siri was killed forcing her peerage to retreat.} The dragon paused, {I understand how you beings' minds work when traumatized or under intense pressure and I began to see a change in Amelia. After that incident she changed from the kind master who cared about her family into to a grieving and increasingly cruel master who abused her servants until the point of no return. As her mind reached that point, she was too far gone and consumed by untreated madness. There was no saving grace for a mind as broken as that one.}
Images of the abuse then began to flash through the two Maou minds. Being cut, having limbs dismembered, being burn with holy objects and holy water. It wasn't just Ichiro but the other girls of Amelia's peerage.
{The once kind devil master had become abusive over her peerage. The servants endured her for three years before they tried to escape. Her using devils from the Khaos Brigade she managed to capture them all}
"Working with the Khaos Brigade?" Sirzechs asked.
{She had always been working with the Khaos Brigade, and her plan was to betray them once they accomplished taking over the Underworld and take over the role as ruler for herself.}
"So, did Ichiro really kill her?"
{She forced him to abuse his abilities but the boy is still weak. He managed to kill her by surprise alone. If it wasn't for her own arrogance she would have defeated him.}
"This situation… It's too abnormal" Serafall said. "A kind devil master who worked for the Khaos Brigade, her plan to steal a holy sword, going insane after the death of her queen, and abusing the boy's power."
{Her abuse of his powers has caused severe side effects to both his body and mind. That boy you saw earlier, he wasn't the real Ichiro. He was just a fragment of Ichiro's mind. Because of the abuse Ichiro seemed to have developed a different personality and in his mind, there are two different Ichiro.}
"Dissociative Identity Disorder." The three turned around in surprise only to see the Emperor of the Rating Game standing there casually.
"Diehauser?" Sirzechs asked.
{How did you managed to get in here?} Kaos asked a curious but angry expression on his face.
The Emperor casually walked towards the two Maou "When you had used your spell to send them here, I simply used my power to make it work on me too. I have experience with this sort of power." Diehauser explained. "While exploring the boy's mind I found a room, more like a cage with metal bars, he looks just like Ichiro except his eyes are red and he's radiating demonic energy".
{I used my magic to try to contain that part of Ichiro. If you release him he will only crave destruction and death}
"So it seems that Amelia's torture has caused the boy to develop a second personality. Which would explain the two different rooms." Diehauser said. "But if I may ask dragon, why are you so invested in this boy? Typically spirits of sacred gears are indifferent to their host's lives but you seem to have taken an active interest in his. May I know why?"
{Because I've been with him since the beginning}
"So, I assume you want us to pardon the boy for his actions? " Sirzechs said. "Would that even be possible? His master is dead, he has no family that we know of and the Underworld, especially the King Faction, won't stand for it. But you say there are only two Ichiros, if one is locked away and the other is sitting over there, what was the third one I saw?"
{That was merely an emotional fragment, a memory if you will. You are the Kings of the Underworld isn't there anything you two can come up with}
A wide grin spread across Serafall's face, "Sirzechs, what if I make him my servant?"
"What?" Sirzechs turned to Serafall in shock. "Are you serious? You want to turn this boy into your servant?"
"Do you even have the required pieces?" Diehauser asked.
Evil pieces were incapable of overlapping other evil pieces. This was one of the biggest challenges for inexperienced devils. If they thought they used the wrong evil piece to turn a servant they couldn't turn back, it was a one-time decision. Ajuka could work some magic to manipulate Ichiro's piece but even with that there was a chance of failure.
"Do you really trust this boy that much?" Sirzechs asked.
Serafall nodded a bright smile on her face, "What happened to him was terrible, he might be a little bad but it's nothing I can't cure with my love and kindness~!" Serafall jumped up excitedly.
Sirzechs grinned at his old-time friend, "I guess it's a deal."
"NEVER!" Someone yelled out.
The room then got quiet as everyone turned towards the left to see Ichiro standing there, a angry glare on his face. To the surprise of the three devils he was clean, there were no scars, cuts, or ailments on his body. The dirt covering his body was also gone and he was dressed in a neat looking clothing.
{Stop talking and just take the deal] Kaos growled angrily.
The three devils realized devils turned to see Ichiro standing from the chair angrily, "I refuse to become a servant to another devil." Ichiro said with a smile. "Besides-" Ichiro turned towards Diehauser, "Do you really want me to live?"
Everyone just stared at Ichiro in confusion, the hostility he was radiating was directed all at Diehauser. "The only reason Amelia wanted that sword was because she learned I could wield Heavenly Blades. If it wasn't for me becoming her servant she would have never attacked the church, Siri wouldn't have died and she wouldn't have gone crazy and killed the others. This is your fault Diehauser."
"You can't blame him for that," Sirzechs said standing up for the Rating Game Emperor, "He had no way of knowing that would occur."
"I promise I will ruin you." Ichiro hissed angrily.
The giant dragon let out an annoyed huff, {You're a fool...}
Diehauser didn't know what to say, everything he said was true. He was a close friend of Amelia and wanted to give her a servant who could help create a perfect and powerful peerage. She could've been a great challenger for the title of Rating Game Emperor. She was young and her peerage would be inexperienced, but Diehauser had helped her build it himself and they were potentially all-powerful servants. They could've one day become powerful in their own way, if not for Diehauser's intervention in helping Amelia scout them all, but their lives were cut short on that fateful day by Amelia.
"I know I can't repair the damage I have done, but how about I give you a reward when this is all over." Diehauser said with his hands in his pocket.
"Do you really think you can buy me out with vague promises of gifts?" Ichiro countered angrily glaring at the grey-haired Emperor.
{Don't live for revenge or for forgiveness, live for your own sake] Kaos said angrily. Kaos then noticed the dissolving bodies of the four [You must leave now, the spell I used to send you here is weakening.}
Serafall and Sirzechs both turned towards each other. "We won't forget our promise to you, Chaos Dragon." Sirzechs said with a serious expression.
{Trust in me and I promise this boy will pay back your wages tenfold.} Kaos said.
A blinding purple light then surrounded the room and the three devils disappeared.
"Onii-Sama!"
"Onee-Sama."
The three devils woke up gasping for air. "The dragon's magic was, powerful." Sirzechs stated, trying to control his breathing. He felt like his heart had just been ripped out of his chest and stomped on as he was breathing rapidly and his heart was beating like he was having a heart attack. The feeling seemed to be mutual as the other two devils who had entered Ichiro's mind possessed the same symptoms.
"What happened?" Rias asked with concern in her eyes as she looked down at her brother.
Ajuka, Rias, and Sona gathered around the other three devils who had just woken up from their comatose like state. "Was this some type of curse? Did that boy put a curse you?" Sona quickly asked her sister.
"Where is he?" Serafall said turning towards her little sister a small smile on her face.
Sona was shocked by her sister's happiness, "We locked him up back in the infirmary, we didn't know what else to do with him because we didn't know the full extent of his power."
"Take me to him." Serafall said with a cheeky grin, "I would like to speak to my new servant."
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"Serafall, this is insane!" Ajuka said with a serious expression, "I gave you that mutation piece years ago, for all we know it could be too much for a boy like him to take in."
"Besides, you haven't claimed another servant in over a century. Are you really opening your peerage up again Onee-Sama?" Sona asked her sister as she added on to Ajuka's comment.
Serafall turned towards the other five devils in the room, "I already made my choice, by turning this boy into my servant he will be pardoned for his crimes and he will begin a new life as the my knight! Please, just let me speak to him alone for now." She said with an annoyed glance at everyone who was trying to interfere with her decision.
Sirzechs and Ajuka both turned towards each other before turning back to their friend, "Alright." Ajuka said. They all decided to walk back towards the main entrance of the Occult research clubhouse as Serafall made the final steps into the infirmary.
There she saw him tied to the bed, unable to move. "Come on, let's get this over with." Ichiro said, glaring at Serafall. She was a devil, a high born devil nonetheless, Serafall realized she would have to work hard to gain his trust.
"Ichiro-Chan," Serafall quickly unlocked the chains around his hands and feet. She sat down on the bed next to him. "I know I won't be able to bring your former family back to life nor do I believe I will be able to heal all the scars from your past. But please, put your faith in me and I promise to make you happy and give you a good life."
Serafall's smile was so innocent and childlike that Ichiro was almost at a loss for words. He had never seen anyone who could be so serious yet so child-like. She wasn't what he expected from a devil king of the Underworld. She was beautiful, cheery, a bit carefree, and kind. He could tell all this simply by looking in her eyes, by the way she smiled.
"Alright, I'll give your way a shot" Ichiro quieted down..
"YAY~!" Serafall said a cheery expression on her face as she jumped up. She then turned back towards Ichiro and pulled out the evil pieces. Two knights, except one was glowing with bright blue energy.
"This will be over very quickly," she said, "They will heal all your injuries and make you good as new!"
"Alright," Ichiro said, "Get on with it."
Serafall placed the two knight pieces on Ichiro's forehead and closed her eyes. "I wish to reincarnate Ichiro Alastor as a servant of the Sitri household. May he rise up from the ashes of his torment and pain and be reborn as my knight. May his former struggles begone and he began his life anew as a servant of my former household." She chanted the ceremonial words to reincarnate someone as her servant and the evil pieces were absorbed into Ichiro's skin as the Sitri sigil appeared on his forehead.
Ichiro felt the world around him began to spin as he collapsed back into the bed from the way too sudden burst of new demonic energy.
He was reborn. The injuries on his body and face began to heal.
Serafall knew that even though she could heal his physical scars, it would take much more than a evil piece to heal his mental scars. But Serafall had done it, she had brought Ichiro back as a devil.
[A Few Days Later]
A boy smiled as he held up a holy cross in his hand. He looked forward at the man in front of him wearing chains around his limbs and neck. "So, are you ready to answer some questions?" the boy asked with a rather calm smile. Considering the current situation he looked like a sadist ready to torture their next victim.
"GO FUCK YOURSELF!" The man hissed, glaring with glowing dark red eyes. He grit his teeth as his heavy breath blew past his fangs. Despite his "evil" features, the man was rather beautiful with long silver hair and appeared to look almost like a doll.
"Have it your way." The charming boy said, he used his hand to push some blonde hair out of his vision. He glared at the man with sharp emerald green eyes, he walked forward holding out the cross in front of him before placing it on the man's forehead.
The man screamed in pain as his body quivered despite being restricted by chains. Smoke started to release from between the man's skin and the religious object as the pain intensified with every passing second. The boy removed the cross before he smiled at the man.
"You know when I captured you outside that bar on the edge of Winchester, you were planning to feed on some drunk 20-something year old woman. That was only a fraction of what you had planned to do to her." The hatred burning in the boy's eyes was obvious to the vampire who was entirely on the short end in this situation. He was beginning to realize his only option was to play by the boy's rules, "So, are you ready to answer some questions or am I going to have to do that again?" The boy said calmly placing the cross in his pocket. "Better yet, there are some other toys I want to play with." The boy stepped back, walking towards a metal table. He looked over all the items standing before him.
The boy looked like a child wondering which toy he should play with. His eyes fell on one item and he smiled holding it up. "How about this?" He held it close to his face.
"What the hell is that?" the man asked with an angry. but fearful look in his eyes.
"Well it's a police taser modified by yours truly. I got some fallen angel to add some holy light magic and a priest to purify it, added some metal flakes and all that jazz." The boy adored his toy with an excited grin, "It's a simple device really. I pull this trigger, it hurts like hell, you scream like a little bitch, and you get a new cross tattoo. To a vampire though it'll feel like a real bad itch for a couple years, well that's presuming if you survive afterwards, but hey, maybe we can resolve this little predicament without getting it even more messy. So how about I make you a deal."
"What do you want?" The vampire asked looking up at the boy with angry ruby colored eyes.
"I want one of two things and since I'm a nice guy I'll give you a choice. Option one, I want you to tell me where King Damion Leader of the Tremere Vampire Faction is hiding."
The vampire's eyes widened in shock, "I-I don't know where he is."
"Bullshit" the boy said angrily.
"Even if I did know he would completely destroy you. His power is on par to a Ultimate-Class Devil or even the Vampire Lord himself." the vampire said.
"I'll worry about taking him out later; all I do need now is his location."
"I already told you I don't know!" the vampire argued back, "If I did do you think I would still be tied in this chair. I hate that prick and all those selfish vampires. I used to be the son of a wealthy noble over a century ago, but now I'm just another lowly servant to a bunch of arrogant, pompous, vampires who hate everyone but themselves!"
"I've been studying the Tremere faction for years so I know how the Tremere vampire culture and hierarchy works." The boy said looking up into the vampire's eyes. "Unlike the Tepes and Carmilla factions, the Tremere faction targets devils and fallen angels to turn them into fledgling vampires to be used as their main fighting force. Human hybrids like you on the other hand, are nothing but scrawny laborers to them. And if that wasn't enough, I also know something else an outsider shouldn't have information about."
"And that is?"
"That every decade Tremere picks a servant to rotate all the noble vampires around to prevent themselves from being captured. And you are the one responsible for the rotation this decade. It took me a couple of years to find you and I know your time is almost up, Asher." The boy rubbed his hands, "Now for option number two, if you can't reveal King Damion's location, I want a list of all the noble vampires working for him and their locations." The boy said turning towards the vampire.
"I don't know!"
"That's a lie and you know it, you're responsible for rotating their locations, you know exactly where they're all hiding."
"After rotation and transporting all of them, my memory gets erased. I have no clue where any of them are hiding."
"I had enough of this." The boy dropped the taser on the ground and pulled out a rather large knife. He walked towards the vampire and placed it on his chest, "Tell me where they are or I'm going to cut your heart out."
"I told you, I don't know anything."
"Have it your way then." The boy pulled the knife out and was about to plunge it into the vampire's heart when suddenly a ringing sound yelled loudly all over the room.
The boy and vampire paused as they both turned towards the metal table looking at the vibrating and ringing cellphone. "One moment please," the boy said pulling the knife away and walking back over to the table. He picked up the phone and after seeing the number a bright smile spread across his face. "Oh hey if it isn't my favorite informant. How's Tokyo working for you?"
"Skip the small talk." the person on the other end said harshly, "I have some information on that boy you've been keeping tabs on."
It was then the positive and cheery smile on the boy's face turned into a scowl, "You have information on Ichiro? Last time you called me, you informed me he went missing."
"I know, I know," the person said, "but apparently he became a stray devil after killing his master for torturing and murdering her entire peerage."
The boy on the other end's eyes went wide as he paused, "Wait, wait, hold up, why would a devil kill their own servants? Why would they purposely screw themselves over like that?"
"Insanity? Greed? A better deal? Who knows, the point is that's what happened, and this master, was a friend of Diehauser Belial-Sama, the number one Emperor of the Rating Games." the informant explained.
"So this Amelia Zagan, the one who turned my friend into her servant at such a young age had friends in high places" the boy said clicking his tongue before letting out a sigh. "Is there anything else? Do you know exactly where he is?"
"Yes, he became the new knight of Serafall Leviathan-Sama, one of our four Great Maous" the informant said, "I don't know how, but this boy managed to sway a devil king in his favor and now he went from being a stray devil to a very powerful and useful political figure, all in the matter of a few days."
"Ichiro was always special like that." the boy said with a smile, "So is he holed up in the Underworld for now?"
"No actually, one of my devil's who worked under Serafall told me there's some troubled rumors going around that Serafall's evil pieces are breaking his body apart. Apparently he bit off more power than he can chew. The pieces, if his body can't stabilize them naturally will destroy him completely. He's been down for about a couple of days and not even Ajuka knows when he'll wake up, if he even-".
"Don't go there" Sora stated in a serious tone, "What pieces did she use on him?"
"A mutation knight and a regular knight piece, but this is the mutation knight piece of Leviathan-Sama we're talking about."
"Thanks for the information. Kuoh huh? Such a small town for two Devil Kings sisters to be hiding. Why couldn't they pick a place like Tokyo for their base of operation like you? Settling down in a small town is going to be boring"
"Sora, I don't know how but this friend of yours is now in bed with extremely important political figures, you should watch yourself."
"I'm good at taking care of myself," the boy, known as Sora, said with a smile, "Besides, I didn't think you cared so much."
The informant hung up the phone, feeling that no more words were needed. Sora placed the phone back on the table before turning back towards the vampire, "Guess I'm going to Japan and that means you're free to go".
"Wait, what?" the vampire questioned with a confused look on his face, "Weren't you about to kill me?"
"Yeah, but I don't have time to hide a body, I need to make it to Japan as fast as possible to catch up with a friend, you understand right?"
"I do, I absolutely do." the vampire said with a smile, shaking his head up and down realizing his status just changed from death row inmate to released prisoner all in the matters of a few seconds. "So where are you going to dump me?"
"One step at a time ok?" Sora then walked over to the vampire, "Oh and one more thing."
"Ye-yea-ACK" before the vampire could react a sharp punch connected with his stomach as the vampire began to fall unconscious.
Sora began to undo the chains, causing the vampire to fall face first on the ground. "I'll just leave the blood sucker here." Sora stated as he began packing up all his tools and equipment, "If he's not stupid, he understands to leave before the locals arrive" Sora said to himself.
"Japan, here I come."
A/N: And that concludes the prologue of the remodeled Heavenly Dragon King's. I'll show you what I have in mind relationship/harem wise and if you want any changes please let me known in the comments or send me a pm if you like. If there's also other things you want to talk about regarding the story I'm happy to help.
Ichiro: Koneko, Meguri, and Future OCs (maybe Sona?)
In case you're wondering about Serafall, after considering it I don't know if she should be put in the harem because of what happens in canon (her getting sent to the other world to fight Trihexa) I originally wrote her to be Ichiro's older-sister who would help him with his problems.
Issei: Rias, Ravel, Irina, Xenovia, Asia, Rossweisse and basically all the girls he's with in canon minus the ones in another relationship
Sora x Akeno
Kiba x Tsubaki
Saji x Momo and Nimura
So basically the only ones who will really have harems are Ichiro, Issei, and Saji (the dragons) however this is open to change because I'm not really concerned with the harems right now in the story however if you can give a good comment that will change my minds I'm open for ideas.
Now with that out of the way, thank you for reading and I hope to see you next time. Bye!
